Hierarchical Clustering of Test Cases for Use in Generating Testing Plans for Information Technology Assets

7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein the log event template dictionary comprises a designated padding element, and wherein translating each of the testing logs into a log vector utilizing the log event template dictionary comprises translating each of the testing logs into an equal dimensioned log vector by padding log vectors less than a length of the longest log vector with additional entries of the designated padding element.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein calculating the linkages comprises computing distance metrics between the generated vector representations of the plurality of test cases.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the calculated linkages comprise at least one of single linkages, complete linkages and average linkages.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein generating a given one of the one or more testing plans comprises selecting a deduplicated subset of the plurality of test cases for inclusion in the given testing plan that provides coverage of a designated set of testing points, the deduplicated subset of the plurality of test cases being determined based at least in part on the hierarchical clustering results for the plurality of test cases.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein generating a given one of the one or more testing plans comprises selecting a subset of the plurality of test cases for inclusion in the given testing plan that provides feature coverage for a designated set of features of a product to be tested by the given testing plan, the selected subset of the plurality of test cases being determined based at least in part on the hierarchical clustering results for the plurality of test cases.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein executing the given testing plan on the given one of the plurality of information technology assets of the information technology infrastructure comprises executing the two or more subsets of the plurality of test cases in accordance with the selected sequence.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein generating a given one of the one or more testing plans comprises selecting a deduplicated subset of the plurality of test cases for inclusion in the given testing plan that provides coverage of a designated set of testing points, the deduplicated subset of the plurality of test cases being determined based at least in part on the hierarchical clustering results for the plurality of test cases.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein generating a given one of the one or more testing plans comprises selecting a subset of the plurality of test cases for inclusion in the given testing plan that provides feature coverage for a designated set of features of a product to be tested by the given testing plan, the selected subset of the plurality of test cases being determined based at least in part on the hierarchical clustering results for the plurality of test cases.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein generating a given one of the one or more testing plans comprises selecting a deduplicated subset of the plurality of test cases for inclusion in the given testing plan that provides coverage of a designated set of testing points, the deduplicated subset of the plurality of test cases being determined based at least in part on the hierarchical clustering results for the plurality of test cases.

20. The method of claim 18 wherein generating a given one of the one or more testing plans comprises selecting a subset of the plurality of test cases for inclusion in the given testing plan that provides feature coverage for a designated set of features of a product to be tested by the given testing plan, the selected subset of the plurality of test cases being determined based at least in part on the hierarchical clustering results for the plurality of test cases.